If it "wasn't very useful", then why is it still appearing on a stack trace in 2.1? Android itself is using it, so it must be useful -- unless you still have a lot of useless crap that needs to be removed even from 2.1;)
And what did you hope to achieve by hedging, saying "may have been"? It WAS included. I found it in the copy of the docs at http://www.androidjavadoc.com/1.0_r1_src/android/app/ActivityThread.html It is (was) in the android.app package. So if it is no longer supported, it should have been marked in newer SDK's as deprecated. Why wasn't it? In any case, I take it the modern way of managing the execution of the Activity's main thread is to use Handler and Looper, NOT use ActivityThread, leaving all other 'managing' of the thread to the system. On Aug 26, 8:27 pm, Dianne Hackborn <hack...@android.com> wrote: > ActivityThread is a private implementation of the framework. It may have > been accidentally included in the SDK in 1.0, but if it was it wasn't very > useful. > > On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 7:47 PM, Indicator Veritatis <mej1...@yahoo.com>wrote: > > > Just to make sure we know exactly which method you are really talking > > about, it is always a good idea to specify which package the method > > under discussion is in. I assume you are talking about the > > openStream() method of the URL class in package java.net (openstream > > came up with exact matches only in posts). > > > If so, the answer is yes, it is still supported. In fact, it is hard > > to imaging using the URL class without it. > > > I'll give away another little trade secret too: I figured this out by > > doing a Google query with keys "android developer openstream". > > > So now that we know your first guess was wrong, openStream() is still > > supported, your stack trace only tells us a null pointer exception > > (NPE) took place, but it does not show which line of your code might > > have triggered this. > > > Now what I would like to know is why the ActivityThread mentioned in > > your trace is documented in the 1.0 version of the Android Javadocs, > > but not in the most current (2.2) online docs. But this might not help > > here anyway. > > > Back to your problem: when the internal Android code comes back with a > > NPE, it usually means you left something uninitialized or improperly > > initialized: I often see this, for example, with the MediaPlayer if > > the URL is not squeaky clean and the website online. But since you > > gave a stack trace including only our own code, we cannot help you > > figure out which thing was left improperly initialized. > > > On Aug 22, 4:30 pm, AUandroid <thevk...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > I have a app that runs properly on andorid 1.6 and on my test G1 > > > phone. It is force closing on the new Android 2.1 phones.I am parsing > > > XML( from internet) and displaying in a listview. Is the > > > openstream() method no longer supported. If I debug the app in api > > > level 7, xml is correctly parsed when I step execute it, as soon as I > > > hit continue the app gives the following stack. Any ideas? > > > > here is the stack > > > > Thread [<3> main] (Suspended (exception NullPointerException)) > > > ViewRoot.draw(boolean) line: 1373 > > > ViewRoot.performTraversals() line: 1114 > > > ViewRoot.handleMessage(Message) line: 1633 > > > ViewRoot(Handler).dispatchMessage(Message) line: 99 > > > Looper.loop() line: 123 > > > ActivityThread.main(String[]) line: 4363 > > > Method.invokeNative(Object, Object[], Class, Class[], Class, int, > > > boolean) line: not available [native method] > > > Method.invoke(Object, Object...) line: 521 > > > ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run() line: 860 > > > ZygoteInit.main(String[]) line: 618 > > > NativeStart.main(String[]) line: not available [native method] > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "Android Developers" group. > > To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<android-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > -- > Dianne Hackborn > Android framework engineer > hack...@android.com > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to > provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such > questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and > answer them. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
